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Boom : art & design in the 1940s
Tracing the surge in creativity and transformations in culture and the arts during one of history's most tumultuous decades 'Boom' looks at the complex shifts in technology and the arts, including music, film, and fashion, that surged in a tumultuous decade.
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Art and Design
This book is a selection of essays covering aspects of the history, and contemporary understanding of the fields of art and design and their inter-percolation.Making things has always involved skill and thought. Thought is given to their creation so they are fit for purpose. Where the purpose is aesthetic or intellectual pleasure, the resulting object is often called art. There is, however, often a hierarchy placing \"art\" somewhere apart from \"design.\" But isn't some art designed? These essays investigate aspects of this dichotomy - from both sides of the supposed divide to discuss the ground between.
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Art : the definitive visual guide
Discover the history of art movements from classical Greek art to the Italian Renaissance, the Pre-Raphaelites and the masters of Impressionism with a brand new edition of this classic bestseller. Truly comprehensive in scope, 'Art' shows you masterpieces from over 700 artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso and Van Gogh. An invaluable reference book for any art lover, it showcases the works; everything from Italian baroque painting and African art to contemporary art history. Discover key facts about the most prominent artistic movements, including their origins and influences and follow a timeline of the most famous works.
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Case Studies of a Trans-Generational Pedagogy of Art and Design
This study reports on pedagogical practices aimed at bridging knowledge between retired researchers and professors in art and design, and current art and design students. Ethnographic interviews were carried out with artists and designers who attended the School of Fine Arts of Porto during the 1960s and 1970s, some of them later becoming professors; these interviews enabled the identification of best pedagogical practices during this period. The interviews further revealed knowledge of artistic practices and experiences beyond the school context. Based on the outcomes of the interviews, two workshops were held at two universities with art and design BA courses, aiming at promoting trans-generational knowledge transfer through illustrated and typographic narratives. Materials collected in the interviews were presented to students, who based their work on this source material, complementing it with further research carried out using their own initiative. The results were promising: most of the students gained an awareness of the interviewed artists, who are ultimately part of local history despite the relative anonymity of some; the workshops contributed toward an inscription of these artists’ legacy into curricular repertoire; students benefited from sharing experiences between peers with different backgrounds and, in specific cases, benefited from direct contact with these retired artists, thus increasing the flow of trans-generational knowledge and experiences. The outcomes of the workshops are now a source for ongoing public exhibitions and editions, both amplifying the resonance of the content among cultural and academic contexts and potentiating further inter-generational dynamics.
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The history of African art
This introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 150,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of post-colonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artefacts, and the challenges of the present. This enormous and complex field of study, once under-appreciated by the Western art world, is now of global importance and an essential subject of education in art history. For ease of reference and analysis, this guide is structured chronologically into manageable and meaningful chapters covering ancient art, the Middle Ages, travel and trade, encounters with Europe in the age of exploration, the colonial era, the rebuilding of the continent in recent times, and contemporary art.
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Art and Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy
The figure of the witch is familiar from the work of early modern German, Dutch, and Flemish artists, but much less so in the work of their Italian counterparts. Art and Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy seeks to explore the ways in which representations of witchcraft emerged from and coincided with the main cultural currents and artistic climate of an epoch chiefly celebrated for its humanistic and rational approaches. Through an in-depth examination of a panoply of arresting paintings, engravings, and drawings-variously portraying a hag-ridden colossal phallus, a horror-stricken necromancer dodging the devil's scrabbling claws, and a nocturnal procession presided over by an infanticidal crone - Guy Tal offers new ways of reading witchcraft images through and beyond conventional iconography. Artists such as Parmigianino, Alessandro Allori, Leonello Spada, and Angelo Caroselli effected visual commentaries on demonological notions that engaged their audience in a tantalizing experience of interpretation.
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Installation art and the museum
Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks means that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials, and other issues concerning care and management of these artworks. By analyzing three in-depth case studies, the author sheds new light on the key concepts of traditional conservation-authenticity, artist's intention, and the notion of ownership-while exploring how these concepts apply in contemporary art conservation.
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Art + fashion : collaborations and connections between icons
\"A volume of magnificent proportions, Art + Fashion is as exciting and elegant as the creative partnerships it celebrates. Spanning numerous eras, men and women's fashion, and a wide range of art mediums, these 25 collaborative projects reveal the astonishing work that results when luminaries from the art world (such as Pollock, Haring, and Hirst) come together with icons of the fashion world (including Saint Laurent, Westwood, McQueen). From 20th-century legends such as Elsa Schiaperelli and her famous lobster dress painted by Salvador Dalí to 21st-century trailblazers such as Cindy Sherman and her self-portraits in vintage Chanel, these electric and provocative pairings--represented in lavish visuals and thoughtful essays reflecting on the history of each project--brim with the energy and possibility of powerful forces uniting\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds
While the connected, international character of today's art world is well known, the eighteenth century too had a global art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds is the first book to attempt a map of the global art world of the eighteenth century. Fourteen essays from a distinguished group of scholars explore both cross-cultural connections and local specificities of art production and consumption in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The result is an account of a series of interconnected and asymmetrical art worlds that were well developed in the eighteenth century. Capturing the full material diversity of eighteenth-century art, this book considers painting and sculpture alongside far more numerous prints and decorative objects. Analyzing the role of place in the history of eighteenth-century art, it bridges the disciplines of art history and cultural geography, and draws attention away from any one place as a privileged art-historical site, while highlighting places such as Manila, Beijing, Mexico City, and London as significant points on globalized map of the eighteenth-century art world. Eighteenth-Century Art Worlds combines a broad global perspective on the history of art with careful attention to how global artistic concerns intersect with local ones, offering a framework for future studies in global art history.
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